“It’s the store policy to put the cigarettes off to the side until it’s paid for. She questioned the clerk about what he did,” Lt. Tom Kolencik of the Uniontown Police Department told InsideEdition.com.

That’s when police said the woman brandished a knife and demanded cash.

“She told them, 'Give me the cash from the register and the cigarettes,'" Kolencik said.

The woman got away with $200 from the store, police said, but it was what she did before leaving that surprised officers.